MEDIA REVIEWS!

This film, oh how I cried watching this film, it's everything to me. I think everyone should watch it at least once. Not only is the animation incredibly beautiful (as usual in Ghibli films) but the story is simply wonderful. I didn't understand it the first time I watched it (I was too small) but the second time is when I truly realized just how important its message is. I recommend it so much.

This movie holds a special place in my heart really, despite the fact that I've never really been a fan of american action movies. It's a bit corny, yes, but I love it. I grew up loving aviation, and I think this film perfectly represents how magical it felt imagining you were in those fighters as a kid. I've watched the second movie at the cinema, the opening parallel was absolutely epic but everything else was kind of meh. I prefer the first one, I don't know, it has more soul. The soundtrack too like holy shit it's absolutely amazing. I recommend it especially if you're interested in this kind of stuff, you'll love it!

Quite liked this film actually. I don't have much to say, it's one of those cold war era american films but I like the unique twist this one has. I started reading the book at my local library but didn't finish because I was busy studying, I hope I can retake it once I have more free time. The plot is interesting and it's enjoyable to watch. Giving it a 3/5 but closer to 4. Fun fact I found this movie on DVD at my local thrift store.

Such a lovely film, I really enjoyed it. Very innovative for the time (I think it was the first film about space travel?) and also very entertaining! I rate it a 5/5, I can't find anything negative to say about it because honestly it's one of my favorites. Definitely recommend it if you like early science fiction.

Absolutely brilliant book by a brilliant author. I don't think a translation could ever do this book justice. I loved every last page of it, it was truly a journey. It took me nearly a year to read it by borrowing it every two weeks from the "dark zone" of my school library, where the best books that no one reads anymore sit catching dust. I've found quite a few of my favorite books in there and I have to say, the people at my old school really were missing out.

My recommendation to anyone reading this book is, don't try to understand it from the beginning. Just let the absurd vocabulary and the raw silliness guide you until you start realizing what the story is about. I rate this a solid 5/5 because no other book has made me laugh like this.

I really enjoyed reading this book. Very often, post-apocalyptic novels tend to fall into repetitive plots, but this one really shines through the rest with its originality. The story is very enjoyable to read and one ends up getting emotionally attached to the protagonist. I love the way each metro station is like a very small city, all unique in their own. Had fun looking through the map on the first page every time a new station was mentioned, it was like traveling yourself too.

Sadly I haven't finished reading this series because the second book, Metro 2034, really isn't as enjoyable as the first and I feel a bit lazy to continue. Once I finish reading it I will also write a review. Giving 2033 a 4/5, but closer to 5 than to 4. This book was great but some pages felt kind of like filler. I remember reading the second half of this book while I was hospitalized and it made my time there way better, because despite having nothing else to do I was so immersed into the world that I finished half of the book in barely two days. I definitely recommend it.

I genuinely don't know why this amazing book is so unknown in the west. Despite being written in the 80's, this novel predicted a lot of the issues that modern society would face with artificial intelligence, the news and modern warfare. This story is set in a close future, thirty years after the JAM, an unknown alien species, began its invasion of planet Earth through a passageway in Antarctica. Following the JAM, humanity built an air force in the alien planet, recruiting people in poverty, with mental illnesses or from jail as pilots.

30 years after the conflict with the JAM was moved onto the alien planet, the people of Earth live normally like nothing happened, as everyone has forgotten that the invasion is still going on far away. Meanwhile, a pilot soul-less from trauma fights the JAM in his plane, Yukikaze, equipped with an artificial intelligence system so advanced that it can take decisions on its own,,, I won't spoil much of the story but it really does make you think about the parallels with real life. How media broadcasts conflicts at the beginning, but then the attention fades away when the conflict is no longer interesting. The ethical problems of replacing human thinking with AI, and lots of other things. This novel is not well known but it deserves to be, I definitely recommend it. It also has an animated series of 5 chapters which I have in DVD and I have to say is incredibly good, but also hard to find.